Button.



No. 69l,|78. Patented Ian. 14, I902.

A. A. mcnmoun.

BUTTON.

(Applicatiun filed. May 19, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNTT E STATES PATENT @EETCE.

ARTHUR A. RICHMOND, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY

MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, To THE PATENT BUTTON COMPANY, or WA- TERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691 ,1'78, dated January 14, 1902. Application filed May 19, 1899. SerialNo. 717,456. (No model.)v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR A. RICHMOND, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the construction of tack -fastened buttons which have an imperforate face and which comprise a hollow head and a hub provided with a tubular neck, which extends through the back of the head and is upset against the inner surface thereof; and the invention consists of a button comprising the peculiar means herein described for turning the pointed end of the fastener when it is driven into the button andfor engaging and holding the upset end of the fastener.

On the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent buttons embodying the invention, but differing from one another slightly in form. Fig. 3 is a section of the parts from which the button shown in Fig. 1 is made; Fig. 4, a section of the parts from which the button shown in Fig. 2 is made. Figs. 5 and 6 are sections, respectively, of the buttons shown in Figs. 1 and 2; and Fig. 7 is a section of the button of Fig. 1 attached to a piece of cloth.

Similar reference-numerals designate like parts in different views.

In certain tack-fastened buttons similar in appearance to the button shown in Fig. 1 the means employed for turning the pointed end of the fastener when it is driven into the button and for engaging and holding the upset end of the fastener is a clenching-plate and a holding-plate confined in the head of the button, each of these plates being nearly as large around as the head and being held in its proper position by the contact of its edge with the interior of the head at the broadest part of the back, as appears by Letters Patent No. 550,957, dated December 10, 1895. This invention provides for the use, instead of these plates, of devices which are smaller than the plates, and consequently a saving of material is effected and the new buttons are made lighter in Weight than the others, their strength and other essential qualities being unimpaired by the change in construction.

When the button has the form shown in Fig. 1, its parts being the top 1, back 2, hub 3, clenching-cup 4, and holding-ring 5, (shown in Fig. 3,) it is constructed as appears from Fig. 5. The closed end of the cup 418111 contact with the top and its open end in contact with the back, the portions 10 of the top and 40 of the cup, which are convexo-concave, fitting snugly together. The ring 5, which is convexo-concave, fitsin the cup 4. The hub is attached by its neck 30 to the back, the neck extending through the hole 20 and being clenched on the inner surface of the back. In Fig. 7 a garment is represented by a piece of cloth 6, and 7 is the fastener or tack by which the button is attached to the garment. The fastener, which is driven through the garment and into the button and through the ring 5 and against the head of the cup 4. by a suitable machine, it being guided into the ring by the convex surface of the ring, is curled by contact with the head of the cup, and thus clenched on the ring 5, the ring being properly held by the cup and the cup by.

the central portions of the top and back.

The button has the form shown in Fig. 2 when the whole face of the button, or all of the face except its margin, is flat. It is constructed in this case by securing together the top 1, back 2, hub 3, clenching-cup 4:, and holding-ring 5, as represented in Fig. 6. The central portion of the top 1 and the head of the cup being flat, the cup is held with its open end around the hole 20 in the back in the recess 21, formed in the back, and thus prevented from getting out of its proper place in the head of the button. hub extends through the hole 20 and is clenched on the inner surface of the back, and the ring 5 is confined in the cup at. The fastener is clenched on the ring 5 by being driven against the head of the cup 4, when the button is attached to a garment.

The cup 4 or the cup 4' and the ring 5 perform satisfactorily the functions of the clench- The neck 30 Of the ing-plate and holding-plate, heretofore used as above stated, and are preferable to the plates, because they are more easily secured in the button-head as Well as because they are so small.

Having thus described my in vention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A button composed of a top and back secured together at their outer edges forming a head in which is provided a recess, a hub secured t0 the back of said head, a clenchingcup consisting of a retaining-flange and a top,

which top rests against the top of the button, and a holding-ring concavo-convex in crosssection, its outer edge being confined within the retaining-flange, said clenching-cup being confined between the top and back plates of the button and within said recess, substantially as described.

\ ARTHUR A. RICHMOND.

In presence of CHAS. COLEMAN MILLER, ARTHUR F. THOMPSON. 

